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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Full integration with Green Pixie

Green Pixies GreenOps solution is fully integrated with Apptio A1 and can export from CLDY to run their emissions enrichment service, however, it would be most useful if there was full integration with Green Pixie within Cloudability in order to v...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

FinOps Review Framework And Data Governance in FinOps

Cloud cost are managed through resource tagging, cloud account Identifiers and various FinOps engineering, finance team, cost owners concept created within the organization to retrieve various aspect of cost reporting. On top of these constructs A...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully consumed.

Avoid panic! How about making the utilization bar grey until the entire day is ingested/computed?
7 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted